The Holding Place

Over the past several years I have been in periods of change. I’ve completed degrees, changed jobs, moved into my home, and found myself in the teenage years of parenting. I’ve experienced constant change. It’s almost unnerving when you enter a period where nothing is changing around you. Unnerving because it takes my already overthinking mind into overdrive. For some odd reason, when things aren’t changing or “moving” I feel like I am doing something wrong. Feelings of being stuck or stagnant start to creep in.  I feel like I’m not doing enough. I begin to ask myself, “What am I not doing? Did I miss something?”.

Lately, I haven’t been feeling challenged. I’m bored at work and have that sense of “there is more to life than this”. After a couple weeks of throwing myself a pity party, I took my own advice from a previous blog, and Cleaned my Lens. What the Lord showed me was the period of being still is a holding place. A place where He is preparing me for what is next. In this place I have been challenged, it’s just the challenging caused me to stand still. That in itself was an act of God. The challenge wasn’t physical. It was spiritual. I’ve responded to every challenge with simply letting the Lord handle it. I’ve cried, but I stood still. He is preparing me.

God is moving in my holding place. It doesn’t require me to see physical evidence of it, it’s a spiritual movement. I am moving forward in my spiritual walk. He is opening up my ears to hear Him clearer. He’s changed my perspective. So that feeling of “there is more to life than this” is true. There is more. That is the Lord telling me that I’m about to move into the GREATEST season of my life.  So, while I think I’m in a stagnant place, I’ve actually moved leaps and bounds. I asked the Lord, “What does this holding place require of me?” He said, “Worship while you wait.”

Worshiping God just for who He is to you is an amazing feeling. Not thinking about what He can give or even what He will do, but JUST FOR WHO HE IS, whoo! God is an awesome God. He is faithful. He is merciful. He is gracious. In my moments of overthinking my position, He is still good. In the moments where I doubt myself, He is STILL good. God watches over us and provides for us CONSTANTLY. That is why we can worship Him even in our holding place. Even in the place where He is keeping us, He’s worthy to be praised. Even when we don’t know what is next, we worship God for being an ALL-KNOWING GOD. We worship while we wait because we trust in the will of God for our lives.

If you are experiencing this same feeling, the feeling of being stuck, look inside yourself. Where is God moving in your spiritual walk? Don’t look for the physical movement or evidence. Look for the spiritual move happening in your life. You don’t always have to see the movement for it to be happening. One day you will feel it. You will feel a deeper relationship with God. You will feel your eyes seeing past the natural and into the spiritual. You will feel yourself hearing God clearer.  You will pray harder. You will worship and praise God harder. And in that moment, you will realize that your holding place serves purpose. The still periods matter. The quiet periods in life matter. The periods where there feels like there is “no change or movement” matter. You are being kept in your Holding Place. God is preparing you for the next place in your journey.

Remember in The Holding Place, Worship While You Wait!